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I could have been a great many things.
Louisa May Alcott
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Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
Novelist
Nurse
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Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
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Rome took all the vanity out of me for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.
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Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
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Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.
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Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?
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It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.
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You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
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I hate ordinary people!
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Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.
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Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
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If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
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A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.
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... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.
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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.
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I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.
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